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Contempt Charges
Against Reporter,
Time Are Dropped

By

Joe Flint and

Gary Fields Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Aug. 25, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Contempt-of-court charges against reporter Matthew Cooper and his employer, Time magazine, were dismissed yesterday after he agreed to give a deposition in the government's investigation of the Bush administration over the disclosure of a Central Intelligence Agency operative's identity.

Time magazine said in a prepared statement that Mr. Cooper agreed to a deposition "because the one source specifically asked about by the special counsel, I. Lewis Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, gave a personal waiver of...